TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Donald
AU  - Mikaelian,Allen
TI  - The privatization of everything: how the plunder of public goods transformed America and how we can fight back 
SN  - 9781620976531 (hardcover)
AV  - HD 3861 C678p 2021
U1  - 338.973/05 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, London : 
PB  - The New Press
KW  - Contracting out
KW  - United States
KW  - Subcontratación
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Privatization
KW  - Privatización
KW  - Public goods
KW  - Bienes públicos
KW  - Social justice
KW  - Justicia social
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index; Part I. Understanding privatization. Public goods for the common good
The roots and reasons of privatization: A very brief history
Part II. Public goods for life: the dangers of privatizing public health, water, and food safety. Privatizing public health makes us sick: an epidemic of market failures
"They just have to pay": privatizing the public's water supply
The stuff of life: reclaiming public water
Part III. The public gets us there: transportation, communication, and economies that work for all. Economic destiny and the pitfalls of the public-private partnership
Toll roads at America's crossroads
Who owns the journey? recentering the public
Part IV. Privatization's slow coup: the undermining of democracy and justice. When the contract is king: how privatization trumps democracy
Democracy in darkness: privatization's shadow over transparency
Skin in the game: environmental and planning policy in privatization's grip
Freedom has a price: privatization's assault on the justice system
Part V. Every last dime: shredding the social safety net, generating inequality. Teaching them a lesson: privatization versus the poor
Privatized Medicaid and the business of denying care
What's in it for Wall Street: public assistance in the hands of big finance
Privatizing pays us less
Part VI. Things in common: privatization and the erosion of community. Public places: parks, presidents, and privatization
School choice and resegregation
Public libraries and apple pie
Communities take care: how Social Secutity defines us
Part VII. Privatization doesn't want you to know: the corruption of public education. School choice and competition: when creative destruction is just destruction
Higher education: who fills the void?
Part VIII. "The cash just pours out": the privatization of public science and research. Academic publishing: how to pay for knowledge three times over
They even want to own the weather
Drug prices and the pirates of the patent system
Part IX. Becoming pro-public
N2  - "America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian show us how to prevent the private takeover of our cherished public resources"--
ER  -